I thought that very thing when I posted:) Time to get back to business! Yes! My anniversary is today…You might say I was a child bride:) My daughter is older now than I was when I married…I look at her and can’t IMAGINE her being married like I was…it worked out though…thank goodness. He sent some gorgeous long stemmed roses to me:) I’ll keep him.

Just so you all know…I had a wonderful FaceTime chat with our own GGail today:) She is adorable and as wonderful as you would imagine her to be! Truth told…she really wanted to see Sadie; not so much chat with me:)

Woman host on CNN mentions something about President Obama … “in order not to be a lame duck President, and to get his way on gun control, when Congress won’t act.” No, how about “in order to do all he can by executive action for our country,” most of which smart Americans are totally in favor of, relating to gun control, and how about “when the Republican Congress won’t act because RWNJs have sought to sabotage his every move since day one of his first term, and have their hands out for more backing from the NRA.” She’s reading all this from her teleprompter. Anybody remember the old “news” reporters on SNL? This mess is why the following one-liner from that show is still relevant today:

“Jane, you miserable slut.”

(Was really frosted when I started to write this, but made myself laugh at the end. All’s well that ends well.)

So what’s next? These Bundy insurrectionists have to be stopped. If they get away with occupying government buildings and stealing government property then any semblance to a rule of law disappears. These people are advocating anarchy. ‘If you want something, just take it’ is not a workable premise for any society.

Absolutely. I agree with your comment above. They think they are above the law and that the federal govt can’t tell them what to do…they prefer anarchy. They should be prepared to go to jail and be charged as the domestic terrorists they are!

Reporters and tweeters should stop legitimizing a bunch of domestic terrorists by calling them “militia.” Historically, and according to the U.S. Constitution, militia are organized and called into action either by the federal government or by state government. Here are the provisions in the U.S. Constitution that apply to “militias”:

1. ARTICLE I, sect 8, paragraph 15.

The Congress shall have the power…. To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions.

2. ARTICLE I, sect. 8, paragraph 16.

The Congress shall have the power…To provide for ORGANIZING, ARMING, and DISCIPLINING the Militia, and for governing such a part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers and the authority of TRAINING the MILITIA ACCORDING TO THE DISCIPLINE prescribed by Congress.

3. ARTICLE II, Section 2.

The President shall be the commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and OF THE MILITIAS of the several States, when called into the ACTUAL Service of the United States….

Clearly then, domestic terrorists groups, claiming to be militias, are illegitimate and do not have the right to impersonate real militias. The media, as well as all of us, are helping to legitimize these terrorists by calling them “Militias.”

Both of the buildings were vacant at the time the “militia” set up camp on federal land.

Let’s hope this doesn’t turn into another Waco (without the young victims in that event), because #RubyRidge and #Waco are both rallying cries for RWNJs who have elaborate conspiracy theories which place all blame on Eric Holder and which they proclaim as fact (I know this because last year I was in line behind a man who was practically yelling his “knowledge” that #RubyRidge was all Eric Holder’s fault to the person next to him).

I’ve been there. It’s the headquarters for the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in a remote area of Eastern Oregon. The staff are gone for the weekend holiday no doubt. But this is a federal govt. building, seized by force of arms. It’s a federal offense and hopefully some people are going to prison over this.

The Burns school district have shut down the schools for the week because of the militia danger there. These are not locals, they are the Bundy group. About half the people in the county work for the fed. govt. so they aren’t anti-govt. in Burns.

Yes, I’m watching the Bundy militia nuts in Oregon.
Let’s let that one shake out for a day or so, see what happens. Right now, it’s just a bunch of sorry little nuts who’ve locked themselves in an empty building. That’s a good place for them, they can’t hurt anybody but themselves.

The militia congregated in Burns and took part in the protest, then part of them took off for the Refuge. Burns is the only town in the area. This is one of the least populated areas in Oregon and the US.

And of course during on an ongoing situation, it’s hard to tell what is fact vs. hearsay (i.e., stenography for the spokesman), but there’s this. (Doubt there will be any further developments tonight — it’s so isolated so there’s no danger to folks in the surrounding region, and it’s desert so there’s no daylight visibility problem like there is in a forested area. Don’t know what the weather is like there now, but areas east of coastal mountains on the west coast receive little rainfall [i.e., desert].)

Real important fact check on the numbers in #Burns#militia sitch. C & Ammon Bundy said 150. @ameliaOPB was at camp, says 6-12.

Some of the militia people have been in Burns patrolling with their firearms with a show of force. There are employees who live on the Refuge, govt. employees who are most definitely in danger. I’ve been to this Refuge and their are many families who live out there.

Just gasping at the language used in this piece: ‘ A peaceful protest Saturday in support of an eastern Oregon ranching family facing jail time for arson was followed shortly afterward by an occupation of a building at a national wildlife refuge. ‘

Could they make it sound any more benign and jolly? So peaceful and supportive, just a ranching family, you know. And the passive construction: ‘ was followed shortly afterward by an occupation’. How pleasant it sounds!

Let’s not get ruffled and over-react! No armed terrorists here! It’s just that the judge’s sentencing ‘ touched a nerve with far right groups who repudiate federal authority. ‘